Malfunctioning of the individual heart cells’ electrical activity may be now monitored using ‘pop-up’ electronic sensors.
Does Holiday Heart Syndrome Affect Heart Ventricles?
In an extensive study, researchers found no association between alcohol consumption and ventricular arrhythmias in holiday heart syndrome.
In an extensive study, researchers found no association between alcohol consumption and ventricular arrhythmias in holiday heart syndrome.
‘Malfunctioning of the individual heart cells’ electrical activity may be now monitored using a first newly developed powerful ‘pop-up’ electronic sensor.’
This allows for a direct measure of the movement and speed of electrical signals traveling within the 3D tissues of a single heart cell. The device may help the scientists to gain precise insights into heart disorders and diseases like heart attack, arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythm), and cardiac fibrosis (stiffening or thickening of heart tissue).
“With this device, we can zoom in to the cellular level and get a very high resolution picture of what’s going on in the heart; we can see which cells are malfunctioning, which parts are not synchronized with the others, and pinpoint where the signal is weak. This information could be used to help inform clinicians and enable them to make better diagnoses,” says senior author Sheng Xu, a professor of nanoengineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.
Which Factors Change the Heart Structure and Appearance?
Researchers applied their new imaging toolkit to look at the structure and texture of the heart in much greater detail than is possible using existing standard techniques.
Researchers applied their new imaging toolkit to look at the structure and texture of the heart in much greater detail than is possible using existing standard techniques.
Revealing More Than 1300 Genes Linked to Congenital Heart Disease
Scientists have developed a way to determine which genes play a role in causing congenital cardiac abnormalities and it discovered 35 new genes not previously suspected in this disease.
Scientists have developed a way to determine which genes play a role in causing congenital cardiac abnormalities and it discovered 35 new genes not previously suspected in this disease.
